Global Sisters Report: Prioritize holy sites like Bears Ears

by Joan Brown, Dec. 11, 2017

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — God’s eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse…”
—Romans 1:20*

Sometimes it is important to set our feet on the sacred land that we must protect. More than 20 faith leaders from various parts of the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado spent many hours in late November traveling to Bears Ears National Monument in Utah.

Located in the Four Corners area, Bears Ears is amazingly beautiful, awe inspiring and pristine. It is unique in other ways as well. It is the first and only monument worked on collectively by five Native American tribes, and with official tribal appointees serving as the primary advisory body for managing their spiritual, cultural and natural heritage. Read More